Direct emergency management activities.

Direct emergency management activities. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Direct security or safety activities or operations. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 7 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 2 (29%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Direct safety operations in emergency situations. · Motorboat Operators · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Perform or participate in emergency drills, as required. · Ship Engineers · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Direct emergency evacuation procedures. · Subway and Streetcar Operators · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Initiate or coordinate searches for missing aircraft. · Air Traffic Controllers · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Instruct workers to set warning signals in front and at rear of trains during emergency stops. · Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Dispatch personnel and vehicles in response to telephone or radio reports of emergencies. · First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Help direct rescue or firefighting operations in the event of a fire or an explosion. · Occupational Health and Safety Technicians · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Motorboat Operators
• Ship Engineers
• Subway and Streetcar Operators
• Air Traffic Controllers
• Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
• First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
• Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-direct-emergency-management-activities,
  title  = {Direct emergency management activities.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/direct-emergency-management-activities}
}